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It’s been 8 years since Zim landed on Earth, The Membrane children are now teenagers, and Dib invites his old rival over to a house party where drunken high jinks ensue.
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Just random Zim x Dib short stories I write when I'm bored.
Zim and Dib are gay, if you don't like that, please just leave. (I also see them as the same age, and write them as so, so proshippers can kindly f off.)Umbrella
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FAMILIAL KIND by PaintedVanilla for MartiansFromMars
Fandoms: Invader Zim
17 Sep 2025
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Zim is Irken. Celia knows this because she is Irken, too. Zim held her as a smeet. Zim is 7,000 years old, and a rebel, and he knows exactly who Celia is. He can't comment on that, though, on account of his PAK currently serving as a surveillance device for the Irken Empire. One slip, and The Hive will recognize his treason and execute him remotely.
So Zim is pretending to be a loyal Irken soldier, and on top of that he's pretending not to know that Celia is next in line for the Irken throne, and on top of that he's pretending to be a human middle schooler, and Celia is politely pretending not to know who he is, and Dib is fairly convinced that Zim is an alien, so Celia has taken it upon herself to gaslight him to hell and back about it, and Gretchen has a crush on Dib, and Keef has a crush on Zim, and Dib has a crush on Celia, and Celia is handling this remarkably well, considering she's also an alien pretending to be a human middle schooler, the major difference being she actually is twelve.
It sounds like a lot to balance, but rest assured, she does not need to get her parents involved. She is more than capable of handling it herself.
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- Part 2 of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FAMILIAL KIND
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What do you get when you cross a defective irken Invader who desires acceptance and approval above all else?
With a tiny, toddler Dib who is much less jaded about the world, much more hopeful in the good of others, who desires a real family above all else?
Who would much rather befriend the real live alien than cut him up?
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this is my first work on a03 so I'm not sure how this works :[
Dib has had a terrible week and fallen into a bad headspace. Zim wants to get back to their normal routine, and get Dib out of his schmoopy act.. Irkens aren't experienced with human emotion, and it seems he has only scraped the surface of what dib is really going through.this is just gonna be a quick thing I think :]
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Random IZ drabbles from the Unstable Universe AU by temperamental_space_creature
Fandoms: Invader Zim
11 Sep 2025
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Warning this will contain some major spoilers for my Invader Zim AU *Unstable Universe*. Mostly in the later chapters. The 2 dabbles in chapter 1 have little to no spoiler content.
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Dib and Zim have been friends for a couple years. Both of them have graduated from high skool and are figuring out what to do now that they are both adults. (Well, Dib is legally an adult and of course Zim is way older in human years but probably around the same maturity? I don't know)
I also don't know how long this will be and it definitely isn't finished.
I will be constantly adding tags to this bugger
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After an incident at skool involving Zim's blood, Dib discovers that a strain of alien DNA has infiltrated his bloodstream and is starting to overwrite his own genetic code. His body is slowly becoming more and more Irken-like, and in order to reverse the damage and become fully human again, he needs to strike an uneasy alliance with Zim and reconcile with his father in the process.
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- Part 1 of Invader Zim: The Irken Infection
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Zim doesn't want to believe his mission is fake. He can't accept that its true
And so he buries himself layers deep in denial, bottling everything up until it all spills over.
In a fit of rage, he messes up own PAK, only causing more problems for himself all the while denying that anything is wrong. Skoodge is gone, having been called back to the Massive by the Tallest, and Zim is now plagued with lapses in memory, hallucinations, and overheating caused by the self inflicted damage to his PAK. Despite knowing something's wrong, he presses on, still in denial. Even Dib notices that something is off about the little Irken. And it doesn't take long for it all to come crashing down. -
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—ZiM… Si tú y yo no tuviéramos que ser enemigos, si no tuviéramos diferentes ideales y metas ¿Crees que podríamos haber sido buenos amigos? — Tras eso Dib escucho por primera vez una auténtica carcajada de diversión provenir de ZiM. Bueno, de su ZiM.
—¿Tu y ZiM? ¿Amigos? Incluso si no tuviera una misión que cumplir, no sería amigo de un mono terrestre como tu
—Ugh… olvídalo. Sabía que sería imposible
—¡Suficiente! ¿Que sucede contigo gusano? Has estado actuando raro desde que regresaste de la dimensión de castigo.
—Lo se... —Dijo Dib, sonando frustrado y suspiro antes de darse la vuelta e irse sin decir nada más.
ZiM en un intento por deshacerse de Dib crea un artefacto que lo enviaría a una dimensión de perdición, donde llovían cristales del cielo, y el calor era abrazador, pero como siempre su plan tuvo un ligero fallo y en lugar de aparecer en el lugar destinado a su muerte, despertó de nuevo en el laboratorio de ZiM, pero sin ser el laboratorio de ZiM, oh bueno no el de su ZiM.
¿Lo más extraño? Lo cercano que parece actuar este ZiM, llamándolo entre apodos no tan ofensivos como a los que esta acostumbrado.
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Invader Zim/Gumball parody aka that one Halloween episode from season 3 by Laxlie
Fandoms: Invader Zim
15 Aug 2025
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THIS ISN'T FINISHED YET BUT I CAN'T RISK KEEPING IT AS A DRAFT
BECAUSE I'M GOING AWAY FOR A LONG WHILEProfessor Membrane Wants Dib and Gaz to socialise more and to go trick or treating because he's too busy for a movie night they all planned to do one week prior. And so they grab their halloween baskets, put on their costumes from like two years ago and head outside... There, they thought about asking Zim to go with them who declined but then cuts to him being dragged along with them.
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"Тепер, коли Діб підійшов ближче, він міг розгледіти, що синці рубиновими очима Зіма стали глибшими і темно-зеленими… що добре контрастувало з його неприродньо попелястою шкірою.
― Що насправді відбувається, Зіме?
― Це тебе не стосується, смердюче, ― той спробував відштовхнути Діба. Раніше це далося б йому без будь-яких зусиль, але цього разу він просто вдерся в живіт Діба руками і якщо б не це, то скоріш за все, впав би на підлогу. ― Добре! Поки що твоїй дурній планеті нічого не загрожує. Це тільки тимчасова пауза, бо Зім має інше завдання!"___
"Now, as Dib moved closer, he could see that the bruises under Zim's ruby eyes had become deeper and darker green… a nice contrast to his unnaturally ashen skin.
― What's really going on, Zim?
― This is none of your business, stinky human, ― the tried to push Dib away. Previously he would have done it without any effort, but this time he simply dug his hands into Dib's stomach and if it hadn't been for that, he would most likely have fallen to the floor. ― Good! So far, nothing threatens your stupid planet. But don't relax! This is only a temporary pause, because Zim has another task!" -
Beneath the Mycelium Veil by ConfettiDonut (EclipseofMoths)
Fandoms: Invader Zim, Gravity Falls
07 Aug 2025
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When Dib turned 18, he made a deal with his father: he would give up his paranormal research, go off to university, and work at Membrane Labs; in return, he would never have to worry about money ever again. It’s been a few years now, and Dib has completed his side of the deal early. Now he’s stuck working in a sterile, boring laboratory studying whatever it is his father assigns him.
Things come to a head, however, when Dib is knocked overboard while on a marine expedition and is subsequently rescued by an eccentric pair of old men. Soon enough, Dib finds himself spinning a web of lies that leads him to a sleepy town known only as Gravity Falls.
All to study mushrooms of course. Or at least that’s the reason his father thinks Dib is so keen on exploring this small town in the middle of nowhere. No other reason…
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"ZiM… If you and I didn’t have to be enemies—if we didn’t have such different ideals and goals—do you think we could’ve been good friends?"
For the first time, Dib heard a genuine laugh—an actual burst of amusement from ZiM.
Well… from his ZiM."You? Friends with ZiM? Even without a mission to fulfill, I wouldn’t befriend a filthy Earth monkey like you!"
"Ugh… forget it. I knew it was a stupid idea."
"Enough! What’s wrong with you, worm? You’ve been acting weird ever since you came back from the punishment dimension."
"I know..." Dib said, sounding frustrated, before turning away and walking off without another word.
O: In an attempt to finally get rid of Dib, ZiM creates a device meant to send the human to a dimension of doom—one where crystals rain from the sky and the heat is blistering.
But, as always, his plan has a minor flaw, and instead of landing in a place meant for his doom, Dib wakes up in ZiM’s lab again. Only… it’s not his ZiM’s lab.And the weirdest part?
This version of ZiM is surprisingly nice, calling him nicknames that aren’t nearly as insulting as he’s used to.Series
- Part 1 of Unfamiliar
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When Dib saw Zim better his human disguise, he realizes he has to REALLY think of an actual plan to stop Zim, or else he's gonna take over the world. So after lots of thinking, he gets the best idea ever!!If he can't defeat the enemy...WHY NOT FRIEND THE ENEMY?So, he decides to try to friend Zim. But OF COURSE HE'S NOT GENUINELY FRIENDING HIM! With this alliance, Dib will try gaining Zim's trust and then, gather proof that Zim is a space monster.
But will this work?
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Connection Error by Violintrees
Fandoms: Invader Zim, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
21 Jul 2025
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Over the past two decades Cyberlife's IRKdroids, androids designed to look like green aliens, have become an important part of society and the economy. Revitalizing the city of Detroit where Cyberlife is headquartered and creating greater inequality than ever in human history. Now in 2038, they are starting to break from their programming, killing their human owners and escaping their encoded jobs. Called 'Defectives' by Cyberlife, these IRKdroids threaten to destabilize the status quo. Detective Dib Membrane with the Detroit Police Department and a prototype IRK800 android named Zim have been assigned as partners to investigate the growing crisis of Defectives. How will the pair navigate this mystery, the threats of the city, and the rivalry they have formed with each other?
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After 4 years off-planet, Zim returns to Earth in order to get back to the life he was forced to leave behind. Unfortunately, it might just bring about its destruction instead.
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- Part 1 of Earth Syndrome
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Desde el primer momento de su nacimiento Dib ya tenía un solo camino trazado en su vida: seguir el legado de investigación e innovación de su padre, A pesar de sus creencias y a costa de estás mismas, Entre la presión y desprecio de su padre hacia sus gustos y su solitaria vida, termino dejando de lado sus intereses para dedicarse enteramente a la ciencia y volverse solo una pequeña versión de su padre, lo último que necesitaba era conocer a un maldito alien durante uno de sus episodios suicidas
(En este universo, membrane solo tuvo un hijo)
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Dib taking his personal issues out on himself via self-harm, but also mostly him moping and thinking about all the sucky stuff in his life
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Zim doesn’t really try to get the tallest to take over earth instead he just has a bad time dib is mad that his alien rival has Practically disappeared and is also mad because now he has no one to talk to sorry I’m bad at summaries